Fuck the damn creationists, those goddamn dumbass bitches,
every time I think of them my trigger finger itches.
They want to have their bullshit taught in public classes,
Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their asses.
Noah and his ark, Adam and his Eve,
straight up fairy stories even children don't believe...
Yep. They don't seem to "get it" that the one-child policy combined with a cultural preference for male children is going to get in the way of any ambition they might entertain for "world domination" of any kind.
I've currently got 5 tabs open in firefox, I think I get to 8 or so before I open a new window.
I operate on a principle of what is actually visible in the tab header bar. Generally speaking, I get to about 10 tabs before the text becomes meaningless. While my wife will keep what looks like hundreds open. (She also has so many windows in her dock, they are represented by a scary little icon of about 2 pixels in size, but I've learned not to interfere...)
But the bigger my screen, the more my brain can physically cope with. I'm used to having 6 comparatively sparsely populated workspaces on my desktop Linux box, but on my MacBook I don't use Spaces at all, just Exposé.
My homepage is a fairly simple (but not unattractive) local html file with a table of about 20 (or so) most frequently used URLs represented by gimped-up transparent png icons (one of which leads me straight to Google's advanced search). This, in combination with the childishly simple New Tab Homepage add-on saves me lots of time.
Same here. In fact, I have long ago given up on organising my bookmarks. There was a time when I used to spend some time categorising them into a hierarchy that made sense to me, but it was quite a big job. But now that Firefox automatically searches bookmarks by whatever keywords I set, there's no longer any point.
Truth is, I could probably ditch my bookmarks file with little pain - there's a big chunk of it that dates back to the mid '90s (when I was using Nutscrape and/or Mozilla), and I've never got around to verifying how many of those URLs actually exist any more. I just leave it there as a little piece of history.
so you can even "play Linus" and just merge only the patches that you like from the kernel mailing list into your own personal tree.
Like (I assume) other readers, I've done this for a while when the kernel was quite a lot less mature than it is now. It is one hell of a job, however, and I was very glad when my efforts became obsolete. If Linus is still happy doing what he does, then good for him.
Any fork would either immediately or very quickly suffer from the same fate.
People like Alan Cox and Marcelo Tosatti have maintained well-established patchsets of their own, comprised of the features they happen to think are important. This is part of the natural order of things ("managing senior programmers is like herding cats" - Dave Platt) and not to be discouraged.
Fortunately, Linus doesn't seem to be like Steve Jobs. I've seen any number of (usually blog) postings that suggest that Linus is arrogant, but when I read his actual reported comments, they just seem opinionated at worst.
Personally, I have never known a single great programmer who isn't opinionated. I'm opinionated, and I'm nothing like the programmer he is. (Probably fortunately, otherwise I would never have got out as much, but that's another matter.)
Sure, he's held the reins of the kernel project for as long as it's been around, but if he were to drop dead tomorrow there might be some confusion, and we would see a few forks. But those have always existed, so I don't see anything to worry about there.
dvdorderonline has a highly profitable business, because of the price fixing cartels in the west they are able to take unrealistically high margins on their products while still undercutting the competition and offering a superior product
If you think their products are superior, then you haven't seen them. I had a boxed set from them recently (an ill-advised purchase resulting from a superfluity of alcohol) that had a 65% failure rate owing to extremely poor handling in some cases and poor encoding in others. Furthermore, there was absolutely no acknowledgement of the copyright holders. Sure it's a profitable business - criminal organisations usually are.
I may be more unusual than I thought, but I spend comparatively little time shopping, so I don't need ads. And the fact that I use Google search doesn't preclude me blocking googleadservices in my hosts file. If I'm not buying anything, there's no point wasting bandwidth (mine or Google's).
Disregarding the GPS navigation side of this: Google Maps is sometimes woefully and unnecessarily inadequate.
I have come across many instances where streets here in Western Australia (although constructed within the last 15 years) are misrepresented to the point of unrecognisability. I don't know where Google gets its input from, but apparently it's not from any plane that us Earthlings inhabit.
...implying you'll still have root privileges on ad-OSes.
OS X is still BSD-like under the bonnet (or hood, if you're a Merkin), so there's no reason why you can't set up a suitable shell script to deal with this. OS X still comes with a good range of shells by default: bash, csh, ksh, sh, tcsh and my favourite zsh.
Apparently Jobs' research has proven to him that Mac users will love having functionality disabled while they are forced to watch a super-cool ad.
I think I'll just continue to live in the dark ages, thanks. A good evening for me is flobbing out on a sofa with a bottle of single-malt (and a glass), a good book and a selection of good CDs set up to play consecutively. Not necessarily in that order.
I really don't think that Jobs guy has much to teach me.
I no longer have a television, in part because of the ads. I would far rather read a book than watch TV with ads at an airport.
I'm with you. At least, up to a point. I didn't have a TV of my own until I was 35, and I use it more for watching DVDs than free-to-air, simply because I would rather buy(!) a boxed set of a given series once the season's over than sit through the ads.
Steve Jobs' cancer is in remission. He interprets that at evidence he hasn't abused you enough.
Hey, I heard that 90% of you Americans believe in God. (That is weird.) Anyway, if that's true, you could do the rest of us some good and start praying that he gets sick again...;-)
Why should anyone but me decide when I relax and when I should be able to work?
Because you're supposed to think different. [So long as it's how Apple tells you to think.] Before the fanboys go up in flames, I'll point out a disclaimer: this is typed on a (second-hand hand-me-down) MacBook...
Apple is (I hope) simply taking out the patent to stake out the ground before Microsoft does the same. The line (from TFA) that says:"...delaying an ad by 10 minutes, or choosing to watch one immediately. This would help to ensure that the ad is not overly intrusive" would not go down well with any reasonable person, since all ads are intrusive, and in at least one case (i.e. mine) would lead to deletion of OS X and replacement with Linux.
The US is imposing unfair disadvantages on their own industry by forcing them to pay for information that would naturally be free.
On the other hand, the notion of "piracy is OK because it's so common in China that it's not regarded as a crime" becomes a bit messy when sites such as dvdorderonline (note their deliberate misspelling in the URL) are selling rip-off copyright works internationally at prices not much lower than authentic copies.
I have come across a number of PDF files that for various reasons are not rendered well by Foxit, xpdf or any other readers I have tried, while the acrobat reader does a fine job.
But be that as it may, having to sandbox a userland program because your operating system is so sloppily cobbled together that it allows miscellaneous writes outside the user's home directory is a sad case. I would have thought Adobe would be within its rights to tell Microsoft to get its own house in order.
The more complex the more likely it will be forgotten.
Maybe. But "Iwt5H,T5tws;" would be a challenge for most of us to crack, while for many of us it would be quite memorable as:
It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wintry sea; [Longfellow, The wreck of the Hesperus]
Until a computer can be built that can analyse a suitably huge database quickly enough, there are memorable passwords that work. Oh, and the above is not a password that I use.;-)
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You never prove claims in science. You can only make an observation that confirms a hypothesis.
Not quite. You can only make an observation that disproves or fails to disprove a hypothesis.
Every time science answers a question "why's that, then?" god gets a little slimmer.
;-)
Well, he could probably stand to lose a few pounds. Maybe get rid of that stupid beard too, while he's at it.
"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board."
Yup. Or in the words of M C Hawking:
Fuck the damn creationists, those goddamn dumbass bitches,
every time I think of them my trigger finger itches.
They want to have their bullshit taught in public classes,
Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their asses.
Noah and his ark, Adam and his Eve,
straight up fairy stories even children don't believe...
...now China has a 120:100 male to female ratio.
Yep. They don't seem to "get it" that the one-child policy combined with a cultural preference for male children is going to get in the way of any ambition they might entertain for "world domination" of any kind.
It used to be religion that was the opiate of the masses. Now, it's porn. I guess there's probably a lot to be said for that...
I've currently got 5 tabs open in firefox, I think I get to 8 or so before I open a new window.
I operate on a principle of what is actually visible in the tab header bar. Generally speaking, I get to about 10 tabs before the text becomes meaningless. While my wife will keep what looks like hundreds open. (She also has so many windows in her dock, they are represented by a scary little icon of about 2 pixels in size, but I've learned not to interfere...)
But the bigger my screen, the more my brain can physically cope with. I'm used to having 6 comparatively sparsely populated workspaces on my desktop Linux box, but on my MacBook I don't use Spaces at all, just Exposé.
My homepage is a fairly simple (but not unattractive) local html file with a table of about 20 (or so) most frequently used URLs represented by gimped-up transparent png icons (one of which leads me straight to Google's advanced search). This, in combination with the childishly simple New Tab Homepage add-on saves me lots of time.
Otherwise, bookmarks and history.
Same here. In fact, I have long ago given up on organising my bookmarks. There was a time when I used to spend some time categorising them into a hierarchy that made sense to me, but it was quite a big job. But now that Firefox automatically searches bookmarks by whatever keywords I set, there's no longer any point.
Truth is, I could probably ditch my bookmarks file with little pain - there's a big chunk of it that dates back to the mid '90s (when I was using Nutscrape and/or Mozilla), and I've never got around to verifying how many of those URLs actually exist any more. I just leave it there as a little piece of history.
so you can even "play Linus" and just merge only the patches that you like from the kernel mailing list into your own personal tree.
Like (I assume) other readers, I've done this for a while when the kernel was quite a lot less mature than it is now. It is one hell of a job, however, and I was very glad when my efforts became obsolete. If Linus is still happy doing what he does, then good for him.
Any fork would either immediately or very quickly suffer from the same fate.
People like Alan Cox and Marcelo Tosatti have maintained well-established patchsets of their own, comprised of the features they happen to think are important. This is part of the natural order of things ("managing senior programmers is like herding cats" - Dave Platt) and not to be discouraged.
Fortunately, Linus doesn't seem to be like Steve Jobs. I've seen any number of (usually blog) postings that suggest that Linus is arrogant, but when I read his actual reported comments, they just seem opinionated at worst.
Personally, I have never known a single great programmer who isn't opinionated. I'm opinionated, and I'm nothing like the programmer he is. (Probably fortunately, otherwise I would never have got out as much, but that's another matter.)
Sure, he's held the reins of the kernel project for as long as it's been around, but if he were to drop dead tomorrow there might be some confusion, and we would see a few forks. But those have always existed, so I don't see anything to worry about there.
Come on guys, get a grip. Can't you keep your minds on the topic for five consecutive seconds? Some people have the attention span of a flea... :-|
dvdorderonline has a highly profitable business, because of the price fixing cartels in the west they are able to take unrealistically high margins on their products while still undercutting the competition and offering a superior product
If you think their products are superior, then you haven't seen them. I had a boxed set from them recently (an ill-advised purchase resulting from a superfluity of alcohol) that had a 65% failure rate owing to extremely poor handling in some cases and poor encoding in others. Furthermore, there was absolutely no acknowledgement of the copyright holders. Sure it's a profitable business - criminal organisations usually are.
All ads? What all the time?
Yes, pretty much.
I may be more unusual than I thought, but I spend comparatively little time shopping, so I don't need ads. And the fact that I use Google search doesn't preclude me blocking googleadservices in my hosts file. If I'm not buying anything, there's no point wasting bandwidth (mine or Google's).
Disregarding the GPS navigation side of this: Google Maps is sometimes woefully and unnecessarily inadequate.
I have come across many instances where streets here in Western Australia (although constructed within the last 15 years) are misrepresented to the point of unrecognisability. I don't know where Google gets its input from, but apparently it's not from any plane that us Earthlings inhabit.
Yes, and how is that working out for you in your iPhone?
What iPhone? I'm talking about computers, not media consumption boxes encumbered with crippleware.
...implying you'll still have root privileges on ad-OSes.
OS X is still BSD-like under the bonnet (or hood, if you're a Merkin), so there's no reason why you can't set up a suitable shell script to deal with this. OS X still comes with a good range of shells by default: bash, csh, ksh, sh, tcsh and my favourite zsh.
Apparently Jobs' research has proven to him that Mac users will love having functionality disabled while they are forced to watch a super-cool ad.
I think I'll just continue to live in the dark ages, thanks. A good evening for me is flobbing out on a sofa with a bottle of single-malt (and a glass), a good book and a selection of good CDs set up to play consecutively. Not necessarily in that order.
I really don't think that Jobs guy has much to teach me.
I no longer have a television, in part because of the ads. I would far rather read a book than watch TV with ads at an airport.
I'm with you. At least, up to a point. I didn't have a TV of my own until I was 35, and I use it more for watching DVDs than free-to-air, simply because I would rather buy(!) a boxed set of a given series once the season's over than sit through the ads.
And books are a lot quieter at any time...
Steve Jobs' cancer is in remission. He interprets that at evidence he hasn't abused you enough.
;-)
Hey, I heard that 90% of you Americans believe in God. (That is weird.) Anyway, if that's true, you could do the rest of us some good and start praying that he gets sick again...
Why should anyone but me decide when I relax and when I should be able to work?
...delaying an ad by 10 minutes, or choosing to watch one immediately. This would help to ensure that the ad is not overly intrusive" would not go down well with any reasonable person, since all ads are intrusive, and in at least one case (i.e. mine) would lead to deletion of OS X and replacement with Linux.
Because you're supposed to think different. [So long as it's how Apple tells you to think.] Before the fanboys go up in flames, I'll point out a disclaimer: this is typed on a (second-hand hand-me-down) MacBook...
Apple is (I hope) simply taking out the patent to stake out the ground before Microsoft does the same. The line (from TFA) that says:"
The US is imposing unfair disadvantages on their own industry by forcing them to pay for information that would naturally be free.
On the other hand, the notion of "piracy is OK because it's so common in China that it's not regarded as a crime" becomes a bit messy when sites such as dvdorderonline (note their deliberate misspelling in the URL) are selling rip-off copyright works internationally at prices not much lower than authentic copies.
I have come across a number of PDF files that for various reasons are not rendered well by Foxit, xpdf or any other readers I have tried, while the acrobat reader does a fine job.
But be that as it may, having to sandbox a userland program because your operating system is so sloppily cobbled together that it allows miscellaneous writes outside the user's home directory is a sad case. I would have thought Adobe would be within its rights to tell Microsoft to get its own house in order.
I just don't bother with recovery questions at all. If the site insists, I'll just put in some random gunk like "klsdvbdekajs" just to fill the gap.
I do, however, keep a gpg-encrypted list of my more important UID/password combos in a place where I can find it when necessary.
The more complex the more likely it will be forgotten.
;-)
Maybe. But "Iwt5H,T5tws;" would be a challenge for most of us to crack, while for many of us it would be quite memorable as:
It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea;
[Longfellow, The wreck of the Hesperus]
Until a computer can be built that can analyse a suitably huge database quickly enough, there are memorable passwords that work. Oh, and the above is not a password that I use.